Engendering mediumship

When youths performed the rain dances in Han dynasty China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3942262
AutoresAlison R Marshall (ADepartment of Religion, Brandon University, 270-18th Street, Brandon MB R7A 6A9, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume32
Fascículo1-2
Páginas83-100
Data de publicação2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000842980303200105
OpenAlexW2022170929
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas38

Sumary: Historically, mediumship has provided significant social and religious opportunities for women in China, allowing them to have roles beyond those traditional ones at court and in the inner chambers as daughters, mothers, wives, concubines, servants and singing girls. Women performed as rain dancers in the great rituals to summon or to end the rain and also acted as healers, exorcists, diviners and counselors, among other things. However, religious ideas that developed and became popular during the Han dynasty (206-220 C.E.) placed restrictions on gender roles, introducing hierarchies of importance and power in which women as yin were often perceived to be inferior to men who were yang. As this paper explains, the engendering of mediumship enabled youths gradually to replace women in the rain dances and at court

Archaeology · China · Power (physics · Singing · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Psychology